søndag 29. januar 2017

Today I am showing a hand made vintage sign for the online magazine, The papercrafting. Interior decor/ home deco is one of the trends that has been in the crafting community for a long time. Vintage signs has been popular for a long time, but now we often see them with a bit of humor. When I looked for a quote to have on my sign, I found the simple sign quote "If your are looking for s sign, this is it". I decided to go for that for my first sign.

The sign is 15cm x 14cm. The sign has been created by gluing together some wooden pieces, sanding it down and painting it black.

Then I created the text as a stencil. I used Silhouette studio to design the stencil, and cut it out with a Silhouette.

At the edges, I have used paperstrips from Kaisercraft's Glisten collection. The paper has been added with gel medium. When the gel medium had dried, I sanded the edges to wear it down a bit.

mandag 23. januar 2017

I decided to show something different for CHA for LDRS creative. I wanted to show some of the embossing folders, together with dies. For the white layers of the dress, I used the Timeless embossing folders and the new Picnic Quilt Embossing folder, to emboss white card stock. This created a nice texture for the white parts of the dress.

fredag 13. januar 2017

I got inspired by all the doors in this collection, and created a box that looks like a little house. I have used the Ubud Dreams collection together with a designer template to create some extra texture to the little house.

The house box, is built as a simple box, with a roof on the lid.

I have used a stencil with gesso in a few places, to create texture on the walls.

I have also added some moss paint and flowers.

I have added the door and some windows from one of the papers in the collection (Mantra).

torsdag 12. januar 2017

Hobbykunst has got some really sweet frames in MDF. This is one of the frames, decorated with chalk paint and concrete, together with a hint of rust.

The frame was first painted in light blue chalk paint. Then I added concrete paste. This paste is soft to work with, as thick paint, and easy to spread with a sponge or paintbrush. When the concrete paste dries, it hardens, and it is good for adding other paints, mists or mixed media layers on the top.

The background inside the frame, is a patterned paper from

Prima's collection "French Riviera" - Journees De Reves et Aventures. This collection is a collection I have used a lot. This was my last paper from all the piles of paper from this collection.

I have created the mixed media picture in layers. I have used Kaisermists on the background paper, and stamped onto the misted paper with background word stamp from Kaisercraft and a ruler stamp from Technique Tuesday - Measure Up. I used Archival ink for the stamping, as it is not water soluble.

Then I have added layers with micro beads, metal, computer parts, painted with rust and copper paint. There are also some copper buttons mixed with Prima and Mathia flowers.